9-letter words containing s, m, o, u
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- krumhorns — Plural form of krumhorn.
- kuskokwim — a river in SW Alaska, flowing SW to the Bering Sea. About 724 miles (1170 km) long.
- labourism — Support for the labour movement, the development of a collective organization of working people to campaign for better working conditions and treatment.
- lambrusco — a semisweet, lightly effervescent red wine from Italy.
- laughsome — (rare) Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
- limaceous — Characteristic of slugs (of the family Limacidae).
- limehouse — a dock district in the East End of London, England, once notorious for its squalor: formerly a Chinese quarter.
- limousine — any large, luxurious automobile, especially one driven by a chauffeur.
- lungworms — Plural form of lungworm.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- macrotous — having large ears
- macrurous — long-tailed, as a lobster (opposed to brachyurous).
- madhouses — Plural form of madhouse.
- mail-outs — an act or instance of mailing out a quantity of letters, circulars, or the like; mailing.
- maladious — (obsolete) sickly.
- malarious — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- malitious — Obsolete form of malicious.
- malleolus — the bony protuberance on either side of the ankle, at the lower end of the fibula or of the tibia.
- malodours — Plural form of malodour.
- malthouse — A building in which malt is prepared and stored.
- manganous — containing bivalent manganese.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- marvelous — superb; excellent; great: a marvelous show.
- mascouche — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- mass noun — a noun, as water, electricity, or happiness, that typically refers to an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion, and that in English cannot be used, in such a sense, with the indefinite article or in the plural.
- masthouse — a place, usually in a dockyard, in which masts are stored
- mausoleal — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausolean — Of, pertaining to, or similar to, a mausoleum.
- mausoleum — a stately and magnificent tomb.
- meandrous — meandering; winding; rambling.
- melodious — of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
- menoeceus — a descendant of the Sparti and the father of Jocasta and Creon, who sacrificed himself to end a plague in Thebes.
- menoetius — a Titan, the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas.
- menopause — the period of permanent cessation of menstruation, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55.
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- meritious — Having merit.
- mesocecum — the mesentery of the cecum.
- mesopause — the boundary or transition zone between the mesosphere and the ionosphere. Compare mesosphere (def 1).
- meteorous — resembling, or having the nature of, a meteor
- methodius — Saint (Apostle of the Slavs) a.d. c825–885, Greek missionary in Moravia (brother of Saint Cyril).
- micaceous — consisting of, containing, or resembling mica.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- midcourse — the middle of a course.
- millhouse — a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.
- minacious — menacing; threatening.
- minotaurs — Plural form of minotaur.
- minutiose — attentive to very small details